Bible verses about "struggles" | Thomson

¹ There was a man in the country of Ausitis whose name was Job. He was a man of truth and integrity, just, pious, and who abstained from every thing that was evil. ² He had seven sons and three daughters; and his cattle were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred breeding asses. ³ His attendants were numerous, and his works great in the country. He was also a man of illustrious birth, among the people of the east. ⁴ Now his sons had a custom of meeting at each others houses, and making an entertainment, each on his day, taking along with them their three sisters to eat and drink with them. ⁵ And soon as the days of the entertainment were over, Job sent for, and purified them early the next morning, and offered sacrifices for them according to their numbers; a young bull for a sin offering for each of them; for Job said, Perhaps my children have in their mind conceived evil before God. In this manner therefore Job acted after every of those days. ⁶ And it came to pass that on the same day, when lo! the angels of God came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came with them; ⁷ and the Lord said to Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan in reply said to the Lord, Having gone round the earth, and roved the whole of it under heaven, I am come here. ⁸ And the Lord said to him, Hast thou harboured in thy mind any thing against my servant Job? For there is not like him on the earth, a man unblameable, true, pious, abstaining from every thing evil. ⁹ And Satan in reply said before the Lord, Doth Job worship the Lord for nothing? ¹⁰ Hast thou not made a hedge about all that he hath, abroad and at home, and about all that belong to him round about, and blessed the works of his hands, and multiplied his cattle on the earth? ¹¹ But put forth thine hand and touch all that he hath, he will indeed openly renounce thee. ¹² Then the Lord said to Satan, Behold all that he hath I deliver into thine hand; but himself thou must not touch. So Satan went out from the Lord, ¹³ and after that, on the same day, when the sons and daughters of Job were drinking wine at their elder brother's house, ¹⁴ lo! a messenger came to Job, and said to him, The oxen were ploughing and the asses feeding near them, ¹⁵ and the plunderers came and carried them off. Thy servants also they slew with the sword, and I alone having escaped, am come to tell thee. ¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, another messenger came, and said to Job; Fire hath fallen from heaven and burned up the sheep, and devoured the shepherds likewise; and I, alone having escaped, am come to tell thee. ¹⁷ While this one was still speaking, another messenger came and said to Job, The horsemen, having formed three bands against us, surrounded the camels and have carried them off, and slain thy servants with the sword; and I, alone having escaped, am come to tell thee. ¹⁸ While he was still speaking, another messenger came, and said to Job, While thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking at their eldest brother's, ¹⁹ a great blast of wind came up suddenly from the wilderness, and took the four corners of the house, so that the house fell upon thy children, and they are dead, and I, alone having escaped, am come to tell thee. ²⁰ Upon this Job rising up rent his clothes, and shaved his head, and falling on the ground he worshipped ²¹ and said, Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall depart hence. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. As it pleased the Lord so hath it come to pass. Blessed be the name of the Lord. ²² In all these things which befel him, Job transgressed not against the Lord, nor imputed indiscretion to his God.

⁶ Jesus saith to him, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one cometh to the father but by me.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest"they are these"adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, fascinations, enmities, strifes, emulations, .animosities, contentions, factions, sects, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and the like, of which I forewarn you, as I have indeed before declared that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God:

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a temple of a holy spirit in you, which you have from God? Indeed you are not your own; ²⁰ for you have been bought with a price. Therefore glorify God with your body and with your spirit which are his.

²² One day Jesus having gone on board a vessel with his disciples, said to them, Let us cross over to the other side of the lake. So they set sail. ²³ And as they were sailing he fell asleep; and a storm of wind came down on the lake, and they were filled, and in danger; ²⁴ Whereupon they went near and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we are lost. Upon which he arose and rebuked the wind, and the raging of the water, and they were still; and there was a calm. ²⁵ And he said, to them, Where is your faith? And they being terrified, expressed admiration, saying one to another, Who in reality is this, that he commandeth even the winds and the water, and they obey him!

³ For walking in flesh, not after the flesh, we are carrying on a war ⁴ [the weapons of our warfare being indeed not carnal but mighty through God for the demolition of fortifications] ⁵ demolishing surmises and every mount raised against the knowledge of God, and bringing every sentiment captive to the obedience of the Christ;

¹⁰ Why then judgest thou thy brother, or why despisest thou thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of the Christ; ¹¹ For it is written, "As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall give praise to God." ¹² Since every one of us then shall give an account of himself to God, ¹³ let us therefore no more judge one another, but rather come to this determination, not to lay a stumbling block in the way of a brother, nor give any occasion of offence.

¹ Receive into fellowship him who is weak in the faith, without regard to differences of opinions.

²⁸ And we know that all things are working together for good to them who love God"to them who according to a previous purpose are now actually called.

² Count it, my brethren, all joy when you fall into divers trials, ³ knowing that the trial of your faith operateth to produce patience. ⁴ Let patience then have a full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

¹³ No trial hath come upon you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, and will not suffer you to be tried above your strength, but will with the trial make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

¹⁰ Now may the God of all favour, who hath invited us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, when we have suffered a little may he himself fit, support, strengthen and establish you!